Chantal Spitz

2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Jean Anderson |Raoul de Jong |Preti Taneja

Reading to Coexist: A Conversation with Itamar Vieira Junior To me, the text doesn’t resolve itself even when I write the final sentence. Translated from Portuguese by the author

Jul 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Uttaran Das Gupta |Chantal Spitz |Binoy Majumdar |Lia Galvan Lisker

In a new anthology titled Again I Hear These Waters, poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain has collected poetry and songs from the Miyah community of Assam, a state in the northeast of India. The community is formed by the descendants of Bengal-origin Muslims living in the low-lying river islands (called “char”) of the Brahmaputra River and growing rice and jute for their livelihoods.

Jul 8, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Uttaran Das Gupta |Titaua Peu |Lia Galvan Lisker

what is striking is the orderliness the orderliness and the space the orderliness and the silence the orderliness and the peace orderliness like a mold in which everything shrinks back dies back holds back orderliness like an insult to enfeebled atrophied abolished humanity orderliness like something forgotten defective empty I remember I live on in my country as my country lives on in me unaware of the pitiless web that is weaving itself and will soon change our way of life unaware like all...

Jul 3, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Paul Wamo |Lia Galvan Lisker

Poet Virginie Hoifua Te Matagi Tafilagi of Wallis and Futuna celebrates Pacific peoples and their age-old history of transoceanic voyaging. Wallis and Futuna IslandsTravelHistoryHeritageIslands To the immortal Hōkūle’aA shore, a call,In secret accordThe coast quickens to the windIts mute response.  A bird sings loud and longAlights amid the daysWhen marriage terms are setAnd soil and rock contested.